Georgia T. Almany, 85, of Pisgah Forest, passed away Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. She was born in Spartanburg County and was a resident of Transylvania County for most of her life. She was a daughter of the late Oliver and Lula Dickson Toney. In addition...

Lance Cpl. Randall Buford, a U.S. Marine and a 2009 graduate of Brevard High School, was found dead in Jacksonville, N.C., Friday night after being allegedly murdered by a fellow Marine. The 21-year-old Buford was found shortly after 9:45 p.m. after...

For the third year in a row, Cedar Mountain resident Gloria Harris has tried her best to make Christmas a little brighter for some of the thousands of troops stationed overseas during the holidays each year. A program she founded in conjunction with...

Jay Johnston, the city of Brevard’s director of engineering and utilities, is asking for citizen help in the coming year. On Jan. 2, the city will ask customers to voluntarily conserve water as it renovates and upgrades its water plant. The need...

Brevard College announced last week that it will offer half-off tuition scholarship to high school graduates of Transylvania, Henderson and Buncombe counties. “As part of Brevard College’s continued commitment to our community, we’re excited...

Dr. John Louis Lenzen, 91, died Dec. 6, 2012, at Clare Bridge of Vero Beach. He was born in Webster Groves, Mo., and lived in Vero Beach, Fla. and Lake Toxaway. He enjoyed his family practice in Fort...

Mary Faith Gibson Jennings, 91, of Brevard, died Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, at her home in College Walk. She was the daughter of the late Baxter Monroe Gibson and Dovie M. Glover Gibson. She was a member of Brevard Wesleyan Church. She attended...

Thanks to scholarships from AAUW, three Brevard Middle School girls attended a one-week academic summer camp at Clemson University this past summer. The camp, called Project WISE (Women in Science and...

Look for the yellow boxes placed by the Ameri-can Association of University Women (AAUW) in convenient locations throughout Brevard and surrounding communities. For the 44th year, the AAUW is asking for donations of used books to raise money at the...

Cliff and Nancy Brookshire, of Pisgah Forest, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Dec. 21, 2012. They were married Dec. 21, 1952, in Oak Forest Presbyterian Church, in Asheville. They have...

Brevard Rotary John Lanier, editor of The Transylvania Times, will address the Rotary Club of Brevard Dec. 18 at noon at the Brevard College cafeteria. Brevard Rotary meets every Tuesday except for this month, as the two end of the year holidays,...

Some things are just untimely and so was the case when my tour to Israel was scheduled last spring to begin Nov. 26. Last April, when my tour with my parents was booked, all seemed to be well in the...

Transylvania Endowment has announced $49,000 in recent grants to local nonprofit organizations that provide critical services for economically disadvantaged people. The grants include the following: $11,000 to Blue Ridge Community Health Servic-es...

Brevard College, the Pisgah Group of the Sierra Club, and the Transylvania Natural Resource Council announce a one-day symposium that will focus on Transylvania County, its people, natural resources-based economic development, and natural...

The public is invited to join the city of Brevard to discuss a variety of topics regarding the future of the Rosenwald community. These questions cover a broad range of subjects including the following: • How to improve economic opportunities...

The city of Brevard has a long history of planning for the future. The city has employed zoning as a planning tool since at least 1946, and adopted its first comprehensive plan in 1964. The city began developing plans for improvements within the...

Pisgah Laboratories, Inc., an innovative intellectual property and drug development company located in Transylvania County was recently recognized for their technical achievements to reduce the nation’s drug abuse crisis. The Center for Lawful...